Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1887-09-01
FARM AND HOUSEHOLD.
lran Items ahout Wamea.

= Few AttneS etoN
Women do not attend funerals in
Mexico. 1t is against the rules OF So
ciety. AMI the reason it is said TO be
that they cry too much. A wife eau
not 90 to her husbands funeral, nor
can a mother follow her babe TO
the grave. One of the prettiest
customs in Mexico is the universal re
spect which greets a passing funeral.
Every man, from the millionaire 10
the halt.cIad poor, takes of his hattiii
the sad trainhas passed. Well-dressed
senoras bow their heads and cross
themselves, while Indian women kneei
in prayer.
Apropos OF the statistics which
make the rounds of the newspapers
yearly giving the number OF poundso OF
meats. ETC., consumed at the girls
college, figures indicating good healthy
appetites, and which, no doubt, would
have made Byron's hair stand onend,
it is worthy of note that when n
presidency of Wellesley was offered to
Miss Freeman it was one of the con-
ditions of her acceptance that the
students should have beefsteak Tor
breakfast. She had an eye to thecur-
riculum, but an equally sharp one to
the diet. Beefsteak, rosy cheeks and
hard study go well together.
Says a writer in Harper's Bazaar:
OF a young couple going to house
keeping the husband viii commonly
make up his mind to buy the whole
house after less of anxious scrutiny
than the wife will bestow on the cook
ing stove alone. Her business virtues
are more negative than his-the abb
sence of debt the absence of daring in
yestments-and doubtless the hus-
band is sometimes right in thinking
that a bolder policy may in some par
.~LicuIar ease be right. Men are talking
about possible profits of thousands
while their wives are debating the
question between something at 81 a
yard and something at 81 liz cents.
Very few women distinguished in
literature have attained fame before
reaching the prime of life. George
Eliot was 3S when her first story was
published. Elizabeth Browning, 81
when she married, produced her best
work after her marriage. Mrs. Stoves
"Uncle Tom" was not published till
the author was 80, and Miss Alcot's
first noteworthy story IA published
when SHE was 81. ii. H. was hardly
known in literature until after she
was 40. These facts should be con-
selling to ambitious yonng writers,
whose manuscripts are returned
with thanks"
Mise Z. Cleveland, the Presidents
sister, writes this good advice to our
girls: 'stapd up for America, where
ever you are. Don't initiate any for
eign styles or manners. II in the
depths of your good, true, country
loving hearts you are compelled to
admit that your country has a fault,
as every great nation has, why, go to
work to first conceal and then cure
that fault; and let it be your glory
that, as American girls, it is your
mission to make everything American
so good and so beautiful that not
long hence it shall be more fashiona-
BILE to be very American than very
anything else; even very English"
Perhaps the first woman to study
medicine with a view of practicing it
as q profession was an Athenian vir-
gin named Agnodice, borne before
Christ SOC She disouised her seq
and went as a student to Herophilus,
an eminent physician of Greece. She
became proficient in obstetrics, and
when employed always discovered her
sex to her patients. The male physi-
clans, not learning the secret OF her
immense practice, accused her of cor
ruption before the Aropagus. She
confessed her sex to the Judge, and
proved her right so royalty that flaw
was Immediately made allowing all free
born women to study midwifery.
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